Robber's Good Book Held More Than Just Scriptures

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November 29, 1996

PHILADELPHIA — Local officials were in a run-down neighborhood discussing ways to bring in more jobs when they were approached by a man holding a Bible. He pulled a gun out of it and robbed them. The man approached the group Tuesday in a north Philadelphia neighborhood and asked if they were cops. One answered no. That's when the man opened his hollowed-out Bible and pulled out a pistol. The men forked over $100 and some credit cards and watched the man speed away in an old, green car, police said. No one was injured. City officials said Thursday that they hoped the robbery wouldn't hurt their effort.